[8:46pm]

“Look, I’m the type of person who doesn’t really care about other people, how they see me, what they think about me and what their stories are. I just treat them as I should based on what is normal, but if you don’t want to have anything to do with me, you can count on the fact that I will not change the circumstances cause I simply don’t care, but if I actually make a move to change that and get to know you, you damn better be grateful for it.”

As usual, you weren’t good with words and you were insensitive about whatever came out of your mouth, cold and detached though you felt inexplicably warm looking at the person before you.

That was the longest speech you’ve said to Taeil so far, and the first words you had said to him after arriving at the cafe where you agreed to meet him after his painstaking effort to get you out of your own world and be with him.

“So, do you want to get to know me?” he asked cautiously, looking up at you as you refused to sit down.

You flashed him an awkward smile. “I am here, am I not?”